Archives for December 2015

As I have been preparing to teach my new Whole Cloth Collage with Paintstiks and Textures course, I have been trying to pin down an answer for an interesting question – what exactly is a Whole Cloth Collage? According to our friends at the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a collage is A) an artistic composition made of […]

As I have been prepping for the Whole Cloth Collage class that will begin in mid-January, I started pondering how I might speed things up. For previous projects, I have always drawn images on paper and cut them out by hand. (Although I do use an Olfa Circle Cutter whenever possible.) To cut stencils FAST, […]

If you are like any of my creative friends, you have some tools in your sewing room or studio that you love, love love! Oops, let’s start over – you ARE one of my creative friends! Now, as I was saying… I’m more than willing to bet that you have a short list of favorite […]

During my recent trip to Chapala, Mexico, one of the women staying at the QQ Bed & Breakfast was crocheting a bunch of lovely ornament-shaped motifs. When I asked her about them, she said they were Lantern “granny squares” from a pattern she got with a yarn kit from Janie Crow Knit & Crochet Design […]